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Conflict Management in Indonesia
An Analysis of the Conflicts in
Maluku, Papua and Poso
June 2011
The Indonesian Institute of Sciences,
Current Asia and the Centre for
Humanitarian Dialogue
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Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, 2011
Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue
114, rue de Lausanne
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The Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue (HD Centre)
Mediation for peace
The Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue (HD Centre) is an independent mediation
organisation dedicated to helping improve the global response to armed conflict.
It attempts to achieve this by mediating between warring parties and providing
support to the broader mediation community.
The HD Centre is driven by humanitarian values and its ultimate goal to reduce
the consequences of violent conflict, improve security, and contribute to the
peaceful resolution of conflict.
It maintains a neutral stance towards the warring parties that it mediates
between and, in order to maintain its impartiality it is funded by a variety of
governments, private foundations and philanthropists.
Cover images
Front: World Indigenous Peoples Day, 9 August, Wamena in Papua. Muridan Widjojo
Back: A batik design from Indonesia. iStockphoto
Supported by the MacArthur Foundation
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Conflict Management in Indonesia
An Analysis of the Conflicts in
Maluku, Papua and Poso
The Indonesian Institute of Sciences,
Current Asia and the Centre for
Humanitarian Dialogue
June 2011
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Conflict Management in Indonesia2
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Editor: Cate Buchanan ([email protected])
Deputy editor: Adam Cooper
Design and layout: Rick Jones ([email protected])
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An Analysis of the Conflicts in Maluku, Papua and Poso 3
Acronyms and terminology .................................................................................................................................................................... 5
About the contributors ................................................................................................................................................................................. 8
Summary ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 10
Introduction 10
Significant issues in peace processes in Indonesia 11
Observations 14
Case Study One
Conflict and violence in Maluku:Resolution and management approaches ................................................................................................................... 16
Introduction 16
Figure 1: Map of Maluku 17
Box 1: The chronology of the conflict in Maluku 18
Conflict management actors and initiatives 20
The emergency and security approach to conflict management 21
The Malino Peace Agreement 25
Box 2: The Malino II Agreeement 26
The recovery and development phase 27
Conclusion 31
Case Study Two
Jakarta Papua: A dialogue in the making ................................................................................................................ 32
Introduction 32
Figure 1: Map of Papua 33
Conflict management initiatives for Papua 35
Contents
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Conflict Management in Indonesia4
Box 1: OTSUS Its origins and contents 37
Box 2: Assessing OTSUS 38
Resolving the Papua Conflict 40
Preparing the ground for dialogue 42
Recommendations 44
Papuan Perspectives on Peace in West PapuaOtto Ondawame ................................................................................................................................................................................................. 46
Colonization, conflict and violence in West Papua 46
Melanesian conflict resolution styles and approaches 49
Recommendations 50
Case Study ThreeViolent conflict and its management in Poso, Central Sulawesi ................................................. 52
Introduction 52
Figure 1: Map of Poso 54
Box 1: Timeline of the conflict in Poso 55
Conflict resolution initiatives 57
Box 2: Ten points of the Malino I Declaration 60
Conclusion 67
Annexes .......................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 69
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Adat
Group o customary laws or the unwritten traditionalcode that regulates social political, and economic
practices, as well as dispute resolution
AJI
Te Indonesian Journalists Alliance /
Aliansi Jurnalis Idependen
BAKORNAS PBP
Te National Coordinating Body or Disaster
and Internally Displaced Persons Management /
Badan Koordinasi Nasional Penanganan Bencanadan Pengungsi
Bappenas
National Development Planning Agency /
Badan Perencanaan dan Pembangunan Nasional
BIN
State Intelligence Agency / Badan Intelijen Negara
Brimob
Mobile Brigade / Brigade Mobil
BupatiIndonesia is divided into provinces. Provinces
are made up o regencies and cities. Provinces,
regencies and cities do have their own local gov-
ernments and parliamentary bodies. Regencies are
headed by a bupati, normally translated into English
as regent
DOM
Military operation zone / Daerah Operasi Militer
DPDRegional Representatives Council /
Dewan Perwakilan Daerah
DPR
Peoples Representative Council /Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat
ELSHAM
Institute or Human Rights Study and Advocacy /
Lembaga Studi dan Advokasi Hak Asasi Manusia
GoI
Government o Indonesia
IDP
Internally displaced people or person
Kodam
Military Regional Command /
Komando Daerah Militer
Kodap
erritorial War Command /
Komando Daerah Perang
KOMNAS HAM
Indonesias National Commission or Human
Rights / Komisi Nasional Hak Asasi Manusia
KontraS
Commission on Missing Persons and Victims o
Violence / Komisi untuk Orang Hilang dan Korban
indak Kekerasan
KOPASSUS
Special Forces Command / Komando Pasukan Khusus
Korem
Sub-regional military command /
Komando Resort Militer
LBH Jakarta
Jakarta Legal Aid Institute / Lembaga Bantuan Hukum
Acronyms and terminology
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Conflict Management in Indonesia6
LIPI
Indonesian Institute o Sciences /
Lembaga Ilmu Pengetahuan Indonesia
Menko Kesra
Coordinating Ministry or Peoples Welare /
Kementrian Koordinator Kesejahteraan Rakyat
Pemekaran
Division o provinces and districts into smaller
administrative units
Perda
Regional regulations / Peraturan Daerah
POLRI
Indonesian National Police /
Kepolisian Negara Republik Indonesia
TNIIndonesian National Army /
entara Nasional Indonesia
UKP4
Presidential Working Unit or Supervision
and Management o Development /
Unit Kerja Presiden bidang Pengawasan dan
Pengendalian Pembangunan
YLBHI
Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation /
Yayasan Lembaga Bantuan Hukum Indonesia
Maluku specific
FKM
Maluku Front Sovereignty /
Front Kedaulatan Maluku
GPM
Maluku Protestant Churches /
Geredja Protestant Maluku
ICMI
Association o Muslim Intellectuals /
Ikatan cendikiawan Muslim Indonesia
Malino II
Malino Peace Agreement /
Perjanjian Malino II
MMC
Maluku Media Centre
PARKINDOTe Indonesian Christian Party /
Partai Kristen Indonesia
PDI
Te Indonesian Democratic Party /
Partai Demokrasi Indonesia
PDI-P
Te Indonesian Democratic Party Struggle /
Partai Demokrasi Indonesia Perjuangan
RMS
Republic o South Maluku /
Republik Maluku Selatan
Papua specific
DAP
Papua Customary Council / Dewan Adat Papua
DPRD
Parliament o the West Papua Province /Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat Daerah
DPRP
Papuan Peoples Representative Council /
Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat Papua
Foker LSM
Papua NGO Cooperation Forum /
Forum Kerja Sama Lembaga Swadaya Masyarakat
FORERI
Forum or Reconciliation o the Irian Community /
Forum Rekonsiliasi Masyarakat Irian Jaya
FWPC
Free West Papua Campaign
KNPB
West Papua National Committee /
Komite Nasional Papua Barat
MRP
Papuan People Council / Peoples Consultative
Assembly / Majelis Rakyat Papua
OPM
Papua Freedom Organisation / Papua Freedom
Movement / Organisasi Papua Merdeka. Some
authors reer to them as the Papua Freedom
Organization and others as the Papua Freedom
Movement.
OTSUS
Special Autonomy Law No. 21/2001 /
Otonomi Khusus bagi Provinsi Papua
PDPPapuan Presidium Council /
Presidium Dewan Papua
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PPN
Papua Peace Network /
Jaringan Damai Papua
PVC
Papuan Volunteer Corps
UP4BUnit or the Acceleration o Development in Papua
and West Papua / Unit Percepatan Pembangunan
Papua dan Papua Barat
WPNA
West Papua National Authority
Poso specific
GKST
Central Sulawesi Christian Church /
Gereja Kristen Sulawesi engah
Malino I
Malino Peace Declaration /Deklarasi Perdamaian Malino
POKJA-RKP
Te task orce or Poso conflict reconciliation /
Kelompok Kerja Resolusi Konflik Poso
PRKP
Te Reconciliation Center or Poso conflict /
Pusat Resolusi Konflik dan Perdamaian
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Acknowledgements and contributors
Te HD Centre would like to thank the MacArthur
Foundation and International Development
Research Centre or their support o the project
over 20092011.
Te HD Centre also wishes to thank YuliIsmartono and John McBeth or their critical peer
review o the case studies.
Rohaiza Ahmad Asi received a BA rom the
National University o Singapore where she majored
in Political Science and Inormation and Commu-
nications Management. She went on to pursue an
MSc in International Relations at the S. Rajaratnam
School o International Studies (RSIS) in Nanyang
echnological University. In 2004 Rohaiza joinedRSIS as a research analyst ocusing on conflict and
terrorism in Indonesia where she developed exten-
sive practical research experience. Rohaiza joined
the HD Centre in Singapore in 2007 and is currently
a Project Officer. Rohaiza was involved in the research
and drafing o the Poso and Maluku studies.
Johari Efendi graduated in 2000 with a Bachelor
o Law rom the General Soedirman University,
Purwokerto, Central Java. He worked at the Legal
Aid Foundation in Jakarta and became a lawyer in2002. He has more than a decade o experience in
acilitation, programme design, and training o
community groups and government officials across
Indonesia on the issues o conflict mediation, good
governance, peace-building, community justice,
human rights, human security, and local autonomy.
He has also worked with international agencies and
the Indonesian central government. He was previ-
ously the director o the Institut itian Perdamaian
and is now a staff member o Current Asia. Johariwas involved in the research and drafing o the
Poso and Maluku studies.
Irine Hiraswari Gayatri graduated with an MA in
peace and conflict studies, rom the Department o
Peace and Conflict Studies o Uppsala Universitet,
Sweden in August 2005. Prior to getting her MA,
she worked as researcher at the Centre or PoliticalStudies, Indonesian Institute o Sciences since 1997.
Between 2006 and 2008 she wrote three chapters in
different books on Aceh, namely on post-disaster
reconstruction, village governance and womens
political representation in Aceh politics. In 2006 and
early 2007, she was also with the United Nations
Recovery Coordinator (UNORC) as a field officer
in West Coast Aceh and Bener Meriah and Central
Aceh. In 2008 she supervised a joint survey o the
Center or Political Studies, LIPI and Oxord Uni-versity on Horizontal Inequality in Bireuen, Aceh.
Irine is also involved with the Jakarta-based NGO,
INERSEKSI Foundation, which ocuses on minority
issues and multiculturalism. Irine was involved in
the drafing o the Papua study.
Akiko Horiba graduated with a Masters o Teo-
logical Studies rom the Weston Jesuit School o
Teology, Cambridge, USA. Afer conducting local
research in Indonesia, she was awarded a PhD in
Area Studies rom Sophia University, okyo, Japan
in 2009. She was the research coordinator at the
Institut itian Perdamaian, joining in 2007. Since
2010, she has been a staff member o Current Asia.
Akiko was involved in the research and drafing o
the Poso and Maluku studies.
John Otto Ondawame is the Vice Chairperson o
the West Papua National Coalition or Liberation
(WPNCL). He was born in 1953 in Wanamum,
Mimika Regency in West Papua. Ondawame was amember o the OPM and went into exile in 1976. He
obtained his PhD in political science rom Australian
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National University in Canberra in 2000, MSc
degree rom the University o Western Sydney in
1995, Graduate Diplomas rom the University o
Sydney in 1994 and the Uppsala University in 1986,
and a Bachelor o Arts degree rom the Cenderawasih
University, West Papua in 1976. Ondawame was a
recipient o the 2001 Reconciliation Award bestowedby the Australians Against Execution group, and
the 1972 President Suharto Award or Academic
Excellence. In 2000, Ondawame joined the West
Papua Project at the Centre or Peace and Conflict
Studies o the University o Sydney as a project
coordinator. Currently he is Coordinator or Inter-
national Relations or the WPNCL operating rom
its new office in Port Vila, Vanuatu.
Marc Probst studied business administration,
economics, business ethics, law and internationalrelations at the University o St Gallen, Switzerland,
and at the Chinese University o Hong Kong. In
2004, he joined the Political Affairs Division o the
Swiss Department o Foreign Affairs as a project
officer in the Peace Policy Section. He was also
Head o the Desk, Human Security and Business,
in the Human Rights Promotion Section. Marc
joined the HD Centre in 2008 in Singapore and is a
Project Manager. He was involved in the research
and drafing o the Papua study.
Muridan Widjojo graduated in anthropology and
French literature rom the University o Indonesia.
Afer conducting archival and local research in
Papua and Maluku, he was awarded a PhD rom
the University o Leiden in the Netherlands. In
1993 he joined the Center or Political Studies at
the Indonesian Institute o Sciences in Jakarta and
specialises in the concerns o Papua and Maluku.
He was also a member o investigation team o the
National Commission o Human Rights in 2000and has acted as a consultant or various organisa-
tions in Papua since 2000. Muridan was involved
in the research and drafing o the Papua study.
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Introduction
When President Soeharto ell rom power in 1998
afer 32 years o authoritarian rule, it marked the
beginning oboth Indonesias democratic transition
and the eruption o the violent internal conflicts that
had been simmering across the country. Separatist
agitation increased across Aceh, Papua and East
imor (now imor Leste).1 In the period rom 1998
to 2003 (when most o the communal conflicts were
resolved) this violence is estimated to have displaced
more than a million people and led to the loss o
thousands o l ives. Post-Soeharto communal
conflict resulted in 1.3 million internally displaced
persons (IDPs).2
Indonesias dramatic democratic transition alsohad an impact on the ways in which conflict was
(and is) managed. During the New Order era such
conflict was systematically suppressed and not
publicised or ear that it would trigger sentiments
o ethnicity, religion and race among groups,
commonly reerred to as SARA (short or suku,
1 Te use o the word Papua in this report reers to Papua and West
Papua provinces. Te area was previously known by various names,
including Netherlands New Guinea (18951962), Western New Guinea
(1962May 1963), West Irian (19631973), Irian Jaya (19732000) andPapua (2001-2003). In 2003 the western-most third o the region was
split into a separate province, called West Irian Jaya, which was
renamed Western Papua province in April 2007. Indigenous people
reer to Papua and West Papua provinces as West Papua.
2 Varshney, Ashtosh et al., Patterns o Collective Violence in Indonesia
1990-2003, UNSFIR Working Paper 04/03, (Jakar ta: United Nations
Support Facility or Indonesian Recovery, 2004). On violence in
Indonesia post-Soeharto, see also: Colombijn, Freek and Lindblad,
Tomas J., Introduction, In Colombijn, Freek and Lindblad,
Tomas, J., (Eds.), Roots o Violence in Indonesia, (Singapore:ISEAS,
2002).On the Maluku conflict, see: Sri, Yanuarti et.al., Konflik di
Maluku engah: Penyebab, Karakteristik, dan Penyelesaian Jangka
Panjang, (Jakarta: LIPI, 2003). On the Aceh conflict, see: Aspinal,
Edward, Violence and Identity Formation in Aceh under Indonesian
Rule, In Anthony Reid (Ed.), Verandah o Violence, Te background
to the Aceh problem (Singapore: Singapore University Press and World
Scientific Publishing Co Pt y Ltd., (2006)
agama, ras, antargolongan). Indeed, it was this
policy that was blamed or the outbreak o violent
communal conflicts in the post-Soeharto era.3
Soehartos successor, Bacharuddin Jusu Habibie,
began the process o decentralising power romJakarta and reducing the extensive reach o the
military into political and economic lie. Tis politi-
cal transition remade the relationship between the
state and society and offered both challenges and
opportunities or peacemakers. Broad changes
took place across Indonesia, rom the increasing
role o civil society in peacemaking to the changing
relationship between the military and the police.
Tese trends interacted with local grievances to
produce a complex landscape o conflict that is still
not well understood.
The research gap
Te approaches to conflict management that have
emerged in Indonesia post-Soeharto thereore
deserve attention. Analysis o these issues (typically
through academic research) has ocused largely on
the structural and proximate conflict drivers, the
impact o these conflicts, and the actors involved:
all o which offer important inormation or under-standing the contours o grievances and violence.
Yet there is remarkably little comparative policy-
ocused analysis o conflict management in Indonesia.
Tis is striking given how requently the country has
experienced violent upheaval. Tose responsible or
conflict prevention and management lack access to
timely comparative research on actors which enabled
these violent conflicts to be settled, what potent issues
remain and issues to consider or conflict resolution.
3 Gershman, John, Indonesia: Islands o conflict,Asia imes Online,
26 October (2002).
Summary
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In this light, the Centre or Humanitarian
Dialogue (the HD Centre), the Indonesian Institute
o Sciences (LIPI), the Institut itian Perdamaian
(IP), and later Current Asia (CA), have worked
together to fill this important inormation gap and
produce policy relevant research which aims to
inorm uture peacemaking efforts within Indone-sia. In several areas the halting o violence has not
necessarily dealt conclusively with the underlying
causes o conflict, and issues that could stimulate
conflict remain unaddressed such as the role o
security orces; equitable resource allocation; and
the ongoing sensitive issues o ethnic and reli-
gious identity.
Tis report includes three case studies on con-
flict management in Indonesia rom Papua, Poso in
Central Sulawesi and Maluku. Poso and Maluku
were chosen as case studies to provide insights on,
and lessons learned rom, managing communal
conflict. In both regions, the central government
mediated agreements to end the violence in 2001
and 2002 respectively but only afer the conflict
had been mismanaged or years. Research conducted
or these reports indicates that todays peace remains
ragile as root causes and new grievances emerging
rom the conflicts were not ully addressed. In the
main, government-mediated peace agreements
have not been ully implemented and many resi-dents o Maluku or Poso appear poorly inormed
o the contents o these agreements. Issues such
as the return o IDPs and land disputes between
different ethnic or religious groups, remain signifi-
cant sources o tension. o the extent that violence
has been reduced, it is important to decipher
which o the many initiatives taken by government
and non-government actors were responsible or
these changes. Tese studies ask how the conflict
was managed? o what effect? And what peace-
making approaches can indeed be regarded assuccessul?
Te case o Papua is even more pressing as the
conflict is very much ongoing. Te special autonomy
law (OSUS / Otonomi Khusus bagi Provinsi Papua)
approved in 2001 was expected to reduce disparities
between Papua and the Indonesian Government
(GoI). It was also expected to give people in Papua,
especially indigenous people, the chance to partici-
pate actively in development processes. However,
because the law has been poorly implemented, ithas ultimately uelled urther separatist sentiment.
Papua also suffers rom local conflicts among indig-
enous tribes, and more recently, tensions between
indigenous people (ofen Christians) and settlers
(ofen Muslims). Te Papua section is both retro-
spective and orward looking, asking how the conflict
can be de-escalated and who should be involved?
As well as what obstacles and opportunities there
are or peacemaking?
Methodology
With the support o the MacArthur Foundation
through its Asia Security Initiative, the HD Centre,
LIPI, IP (and eventually CA) undertook a wide
range o research. Support was also received rom
the International Development Research Centre.
Troughout 2009 and up to mid-2010 detailed
primary research was undertaken in Maluku, Poso
and Papua. Te methodology or this researchincluded ocus group discussions, workshops and
individual briefings. Tese were complemented by
interviews with officials rom the central govern-
ment and non-government actors in Jakarta, as well
as drawing on materials rom secondary sources.
An annotated bibliography containing selective
material relevant to conflict management in Papua,
Maluku and Poso was produced in early 2010.4 For
more detail see Annex 1: Research methodology.
Significant issues in peace
processes in Indonesia
Decentralization
Decentralisation and regional autonomy became a
national priority during the period oreormasi.5 A
number o laws introduced in 1999 shifed power
away rom the central government.6 Te heads o
regional governments, districts (bupati) and mayors
(walikota) became elected positions or the firsttime. Decentralisation with its many positive and
4 Available at www.hdcentre.org/files/Indonesia20Literature20
Review20January202010_0.pd
5 Te Post-Soeharto era in Indonesia began with the all o Soeharto
in 1998. Since then Indonesia has been in a per iod o transition. Tis
era has been called the period oreormasi (reorm).
6 Tese include Law No. 22/1999 on Regional Government and Law
No. 25/1999 on Financial bala nce between the Centra l and Regional
Government. Tese two national laws replaced previous national
laws that regulated the admin istrative structure o regional govern-
ments, Law No. 5/1974 on Regional Government and Law No. 5/1979
on Village Government. Te latter law had previously introduced the
Javanese administrative structure or vi llages throughout Indonesia.
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democratic benefits also led to major challenges.
Te local population, ofen reerred to as sons o
the soil (putra daerah) were given priority or civil
service positions in local government. Control o
the civil service offered the power to allocate jobs,
contracts and engage in corruption. Unsurprisingly
then, those who controlled the bureaucracy underSoeharto (who were not necessarily rom the local
population) resented losing their privileged posi-
tions. Hence, there was sharp competition among
elites, sometimes along ethnic lines, and divisions
were sharpened between those considered locals
and migrants.
Tese changes had a proound impact on con-
flict management. In many cases they engendered
urther conusion within government. Te division
o power between provincial and district government
lacked clarity, and co-ordination in crisis situationswas disjointed. Corruption became more prevalent
because o the shif o financial power to local govern-
ment, compounded by the lack o sound supervision
and a strong central government to monitor the
implementation o these new laws. Local adminis-
trators throughout Indonesia now have considerable
power over the exploitation o resources.7
Such difficulties between provincial and district
governments led the central government to reassert
itsel in late 2001 with the result that the central gov-
ernment stepped up its efforts or conflict resolution.
Suffice to say, the post-Soeharto reorm process is
still a work in progress with the resulting decen-
tralisation having implications or effective conflict
resolution.
Consequently, the efforts o central government
ministers particularly Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
and Jusu Kalla8 led to the Malino peace declara-
tion in Poso in December 2001 (Malino I) and the
Malino peace agreement in Maluku and North Maluku
in February 2002 (Malino II).9
Both Malino I andMalino II were perceived as political announce-
ments to mark the end o conflict, but critically
neither was a participatory process in which local
7 Richard, Seymour, and urner, Sarah, Otonomi daerah: Indonesias
decentralisation experiment, New Zealand Journal o Asian Studies
4 (2002), pp.33-51.
8 Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Coordinating Minister or Political
and Security Affairs, 2002-2004; Jusu Kalla, Coordinating Minister
or Peoples Welare, 2001-2004.
9 Te Malino Declaration on Poso can be accessed at www.relieweb.
int/rw/rwb.ns/db900SID/ACOS-64BRC3?OpenDocument; Mali no II
Peace Agreement on Maluku can be accessed at ww w.relieweb.int/
rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/ACOS-64CDMA?OpenDocument.
communities were involved in the planning or imple-
mentation o the agreements. Tese agreements
were criticised or ocusing on physical recovery,
reconstruction and the provision o emergency aid
to IDPs instead o addressing root causes. Among
the major criticisms cited are: a lack o consultation
with the local community on the peace agreements;members o the negotiating teams did not repre-
sent the needs o the locals; and the agreements did
not address the structural causes o the conflicts.
For example, resources and economic opportuni-
ties are still unequally distributed, and relocated
IDPs have not been effectively re-integrated into
their new environments.
Security forces
It was only during the presidency o AbdurrahmanWahid (1999-2001) that military reorm started to
be taken seriously. While the military, entara
Nasional Indonesia (NI), and the police had been
two branches o the Republic o Indonesia Armed
Forces (ABRI) under Soeharto, by 2002 they had
been separated as part o the process o security
sector reorm.10 On paper the police were tasked
with internal security while the military was re-
sponsible or national deence. However, during
this transition, the division o responsibilities and
relations between the military and police were not
clearly defined. Tere was also a degree o resistance
rom elements o the military, which has a long
tradition o regarding the police as the inerior
orce. In practice, the military was still called upon
or internal security duties where they had to work
closely with the police. Te military remained politi-
cally influential, especially in ormulating national
security policy. Moreover, while the military had
10 wo pieces o legisl ation, Law No. 3/2002 on State Deense and Law
No. 34/2004 on the Indonesian Armed Forces, constitute the most
important laws in the reorm o t he security sector. Te role and
unctions o the military and the police are then urther defined in
the ollowing two new ac ts: according to the State Deence Act
No.2/2002, the NI is a deence instrument o the unitary Republic
o Indonesia (Article 10). Meanwhile, the National Police Act
No. 2/2002 states that the police orce is an instrument o the state
responsible or guarding public security and order and tasked with
protecting, guiding and serving the public as well as upholding the
law. Te Law No. 2/2002 also clea rly stipulates that the Police are a
civilian orce responsible or internal security matters. For more
inormation, see Sukma, Rizal and Prasetyono, Edy, Security sector
reorm in Indonesia: Te military and the police, Working Paper 9,
Netherlands Institute o International Relations Clingadael Conflict
Research Unit (Berlin: Bergho Research Centre or Constructive
Conflict Management, 2003).
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experience handling separatist or anti-government
violence, communal conflicts such as those in
Maluku and Poso had no clear enemy and proved
ar harder to manage, requiring skills the military
lacked. In recent years, the position o the police has
improved, not least in terms o budgetary support.
The roles of women
Tough women are ofen assumed to be victims in
armed conflicts, womens roles in violent conflicts
present a ar more complex picture. For example,
womens resilience through their economic activi-
ties, care o amily and children, and community
networks help prevent urther societal disinte-
gration in the midst o violence and insecurity.11
In Indonesia this is certainly the case. Women also
played important roles in inormal reconciliationbetween the conflicting parties. O course, women
also played active roles in perpetrating violence
as combatants, commanders, messengers and
provocateurs.
In Ambon, Poso and Aceh, women led many
inter-religious and peace dialogue processes at
the grassroots level. ypically perceived as non-
threatening (perhaps even powerless) by many in
the community, they are ofen able to influence men
and husbands to lay down their weapons. While
women have played an extensive role in managingconflict at the community level in a variety o
ways, their involvement in conflict resolution at
higher political levels is minimal. For example, in
the Helsinki agreement on Aceh, only one woman,
an advisor to the Free Aceh Movement (GAM),
was involved in the peace process.12 wo women
pastors rom the Christian community and a
Muslim woman participated in the Malino I process.
In Malino II, a woman pastor and two Catholic
women were chosen as representatives o the
Christian community, and no women represented
the Muslim community. In addition, the presence
o these women in these peace talks did not neces-
sarily mean issues o concern to women were
brought to the table, as they had to submit to the
11 Bell, Christine, Women address the problems o peace agreements,
In, Coomaraswamy, Radhika and Fonseka, Dilr ukshi (Eds.),Peace
work: Women, armed conflict and negotiation, (India:Women
Unlimited, 2004).
12 Te Helsink i Memorandum o Understanding between the
Government o the Republic o Indonesia and the Free Aceh
Movement is available at www.aceh-mm.org/download/english/
Helsinki20MoU.pd
broader agenda o their male-dominated teams.
Notably, not a single article in the Helsinki agree-
ment and Malino agreements explicitly addresses
gender issues.
Womens limited participation in peacemaking
reflects broader gender challenges in Indonesia.
Tough the country has a strong matrilineal com-ponent to its traditional culture, this is mostly
obscured by a narrow religious interpretation o
womens roles in society. Tis conservative cultural
context is exacerbated by a low level o awareness
among women about their rights both at a national
level and globally. Under such circumstances, it is
difficult to encourage women to contribute to a
higher political level o decision-making andor
many (male) decision-makers to create or share
political space to enable that to happen.13 As a
result the process loses access to a wide range operspectives and acute understanding o the stakes
involved in the violent conflict.
Civil society
Te record o representatives rom civil society in
resolving conflict in Indonesia has been mixed. In
many cases, they are an important bridge to the
central government. For example, the Papua Peace
Network (PPN) is leading an internal dialogue
among civil society groups to prepare or eventualtalks on the uture o Papua, and ensure that the
views o civil society are well represented in a
potential dialogue process.
Civil society representatives have also played an
active role as peace and reconciliation actors at the
grassroots level in the communal conflicts o
Maluku and Central Sulawesi. In these conflicts,
they were instrumental in delivering emergency
aid to the IDPs and the affected communities. In
addition, there were several initiatives rom villag-
ers to set up local mechanisms to prevent conflict.For example, in Wayame village in Maluku, villag-
ers created eam 20 consisting o ten people rom
the Muslim community and ten people rom the
Christian community who were responsible or
patrolling the village to ensure security and inves-
tigating any rumours circulating in the village with
13 See, Centre or Humanitarian Dialogue, Women at the Indonesian
peace table: Enhancing the contributions o women to conflict resolu-
tion, Report and policy recommendations with the Indonesian
Institute o Sciences (Geneva: Centre or Humanitarian Dialogue,
2010) available in Bahasa Indonesia and English at www.hdcentre.org/
projects/gender-amp-mediation/issues/women-peace-table--asia-pacific.
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the potential to incite conflict. Rules were also created
and enorced in the village that included a prohibi-
tion on making derogatory remarks about other
religions and being involved in violence. Any villagers
ound breaking the rules were punished accord-
ingly or told to leave the village. Other civil society
initiatives included providing education, incomegeneration or women and trauma counselling.
However, Soehartos authoritarian legacy lim-
ited civil societys ability to handle the challenging
diversity o ethnic groups in Indonesia. His unity
policy used a variety o legal and ideological methods
to either curtail or regulate civil society, the most
well-known o which was the 1985 Law on Social
Organisations (Undang-Undang Organisasi
Kemasyarakatan No. 8/1985, otherwise known as
UU ORMAS). Under this law, all organisations had
to adhere to the state ideology oPancasila.14 With
the removal o regulations controlling organisa-
tional activities in 1998, the number o NGOs and
other civil society organisations increased at a rapid
rate. However, many o these organisations are
ragmented along sectoral lines with a lack o co-
ordination between groups working on similar
issues; many are weak organisationally; and there
are very ew mechanisms through which these
organisations can be held accountable to the com-
munities which they endeavour to help or claimto represent.
Observations
Tough the conflicts in Maluku, Poso and Papua
are clearly different rom each other, there are a
number o common themes worth reflecting on
not least because the conflict in Papua is ongoing
and more needs to be done to ensure that peace in
Maluku and Poso is sustained.
A clear common challenge has been the appro-
priate use o the security orces. Inexperienced in
dealing with communal conflicts, the initial security
response in Maluku and Poso exacerbated tensions.
Te security orces aligned themselves with differ-
ent sides in the conflict, allegedly supplying arms
and ailing to arrest those who clearly violated the
law. In Papua, human rights abuses by security
14 Pancasila consists o five principles: Belie in the one and only God;
just and civilised humanity; unity o Indonesia; democracy guided
by the inner wisdom in the una nimity arising out o deliberations
amongst representatives; and, socia l justice or all .
agencies and competition between them or control
over natural resources has led to increased mistrust
against the central government as well as migrants.
However, at the same time, the lesson rom Maluku
and Poso is that when the security orces are seen
to enorce the law airly and arrest those known to
be instigating violence, conflict can be reduced.Funds or development and humanitarian assis-
tance should not be seen as a panacea. As violence
escalated in Maluku and Poso, the central govern-
ment and NGOs ocused on providing emergency
aid, particularly to those displaced. While this was
an essential humanitarian response, it was only
when the central government began to address more
undamental drivers o the conflict that violence
subsided. Similarly in Papua, relying on develop-
ment projects which suffer rom corruption and
poor co-ordination within government has ailed
to calm separatist sentiment. Indeed, uneven develop-
ment is a conflict driver. Tis lesson applies equally
to post-violence measures. Money was allocated in
Maluku and Poso to rebuilding inrastructure at
the expense o reconciliation and re-integration o
the conflicting parties. Such intangibles are harder
to address but essential or a lasting peace. Economic
wellbeing should not be regarded as a substitute or
political dialogue.
Tese case studies also ask difficult questionsabout who is responsible or managing conflicts in
Indonesia, reflecting an ongoing debate in govern-
ment circles where there should be attempts to rame
conflict management in a national law. District and
provincial governments have occasionally been
constructive but once violence escalates beyond a
certain point, the central government needs to step
in either as a acilitator o dialogue in a commu-
nal context, or a participant in dialogue i they are
party to the conflict.
Better co-ordination within government is alsoneeded. Competition between provincial and dis-
trict governments in Maluku and Poso weakened
attempts to manage the conflict. In the case o
Papua, while the Papua Desk o the Coordinating
Ministry or Legal, Political and Security Affairs
has the ormal mandate to deal with the region, at
times other agencies like the Ministry o Home
Affairs exercise greater power.
Civil society representatives whether rom the
NGO or religious community have an importantrole in prodding reluctant state authorities to take
action. It took a Christian leader, Pastor ubondo,
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to persuade Jusu Kalla to help mediate the conflict
in Poso. In Papua, LIPI has built up support within
government or dialogue starting with its 2008
proposal Te Papua Road Map.15Tis has been
complemented by the work o a Papuan Catholic
pastor, Father Neles ebay, who has promoted dia-
logue within the Papuan community and with thecentral government in Jakarta. In all this, public
participation is critical. Peace in Maluku and Poso
is less secure than it could be because the Malino I
and II agreements were elite agreements made
without any involvement o the public a lesson
which should be heeded by those involved in dia-
logue in Papua.
15 Widjojo, Muridan, (Ed.), Papua Road Map: Negotiating the Past,
Improving the Present and Securing the Future, (Jakarta: YOI, Yayasan
IFA, LIPI, 2009).
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Conflict and violence in
Maluku: Resolution and
management approaches
Introduction
Te violent conflict in Maluku, largely concentrated
in Ambon, was one o the most devastating to break
out afer the all o the Soeharto regime. Te con-
flict claimed almost 5,000 lives rom 1999 to 2002
and displaced a third o the population o Maluku
and North Maluku.16 Beore the outbreak o the
religious communal conflict in Ambon city, there
were several inter-religious skirmishes in other
parts o Indonesia. In November 1998, riots broke
out in Ketapang, north Jakarta, between Christian
Ambonesepreman, or thugs, and Muslims. It was
reported that afer the riots, almost 200 Ambonese
preman were shipped back to Maluku by the Indo-
nesian Navy. According to witnesses in Ambon, the
preman acted as provocateurs o the first outbreak
o violence.17 In December 1998, in several areas in
Ambon, fights and arson attacks occurred between
Christian and Muslim villages, ofen triggered bythe Indonesian Military (NI). On January 14, 1999,
there were riots between Christians and Muslims
in Dobo in southeast Maluku.
16 Brown, Graham., Wilson, Christopher and Hadi, Suprayoga.,
Overcoming Violent Conflict: Peace and Development Analysis in
Maluku and North Ma luku, Vol. 4, Bappenas, (Jaka rta: United
Nations Development Programme and Lembaga Ilmu Pengetahuan
Indonesia, 2005).
17 Van Klinken, Gerry, What caused the Ambon violence?, Inside
Indonesia, No.60 (1999). See also: Aditjondro, Di Balik Asap Mesiu,
Air Mata dan Anyir Darah di Ma luku, In Salampessy, Zairin and
Husain, Tamrin (Eds.), Ketika Semerbak Cengkih ergusur Asap
Mesiu, (Jakarta:APAK Ambon, 2001).
Te most requently cited trigger to the conflict
in Ambon is the event on 19 January 1999 during the
Muslim holiday o Idul Fitri. A petty dispute broke
out between a Christian youth rom Mardika, a district
in Ambon city, and a Muslim youth rom Batumerah,a village next to Mardika. Rumours that exacerbated
pre-existing divisions between Christian and Muslim
communities began, drawing surrounding villages
into the violence. Initially, fighting was mainly between
Ambon Christians and Muslim immigrants rom
South Sulawesi (Bugis, Buton and Makassar), with
each launching surprise attacks against the other.18
Conflict drivers
Te conflict in Maluku is ofen portrayed in terms
o longstanding animosities between Muslims and
Christians, although the reality is more complex.
As a result o European involvement in the spice
trade in the 16th century, nearly hal o the Maluku
population today are Christians (50.2 percent accord-
ing to the 2000 census); compared to the rest o
Indonesia where 88 per cent o the population is
Muslim. More than 300 years o Dutch colonialism
divided Maluku society along religious lines, both
geographically and socially.19
raditional practicesare thought to have kept tensions between Christians
and Muslims in a relatively stable state until the
1970s.20 Pela Gandong, a village alliance system
18 Panggabean, Samsu, Maluku: Te Challenge o Peace, In van
Deveen, Hans (Ed.), Searching or Peace in Asia Pacific , (Boulder:
Lynne Rienner Publication, 2004).
19 International Crisis Group, Indonesia: Overcoming Murder and Chaos
in Maluku, Asia Report No. 10, (Jakarta / Brussels: ICG, 2000).
20 Bartels, Dieter, Your God is No Longer Mine: Muslim-Christian
Fratricide in the Central Moluccas afer a Hal -Millennium o
olerant Co-Existence and Ethnic Unity, In Pannell, Sandra (Ed.),
A State o Emergency: Violence, Society and the State in Eastern
Indonesia, (Darwin: Northern erritory University Press, 2003).
Case Study One
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unique to the Central Maluku, bound Muslim and
Christian villages together and played a pivotal role
in traditional social relationships and the experi-
ence o cultural identity.
Maluku underwent many social changes during
Soehartos rule. Te apparent peaceul relationship
between Christians and Muslims was only super-
ficial. Dutch colonialism led to Christians being
granted greater access to education and political
office, while Muslims made up the majority o traders
and business people. Following the government
policy o transmigration that began in 1950s, and
voluntary migration rom Bugis, Buton and Makassar
that grew in the 1970s, the population o Maluku
became increasingly Muslim. In 1990, Soeharto
ounded the Indonesian Association o Muslim
Intellectuals (Ikatan Cendekiawan Muslim Indonesia,
or ICMI) as a means o securing political support
rom Islamic groups as his power within the mili-
tary aded. Soeharto intended ICMI to be a counter-balance to the military. Te ICMI became an increas-
ingly important source o individuals or important
government positions, including in Maluku. In 1992,
M. Akib Latuconsina, ICMI director in Maluku
was appointed governor. He was the first native
Malukan and the first civilian to hold the post,
which was usually occupied by military officers
rom Java. By 1996 all o the bupati, or district chies,
in the province were Muslims. Tese changes antago-
nised the Christian population and urther divided
Maluku along religious lines.
Evolution of the conflict
In the early stage o the conflict, the target o vio-
lence were Muslim migrants rom Bugis, Buton
and Makassar, a group whose dominant position
in the employment market and inormal labour
sector (e.g. market merchants) generated resentment.
Afer the large-scale exodus o those migrants, the
conflict spread to other parts o Maluku and became
more overtly religious. Te flare up o violence wasaggravated by rumours surrounding religious sym-
bols such as attacks on mosques and churches.
Courtesy of the UN OCHA Regional Office for Asia-Pacific, 2011.
Figure 1: Map of Maluku
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Women and children were also involved in the vio-
lence, quickly learning to make spears, machetes,
arrows, and bombs.21
Te conflict in Maluku subsided in May 1999 as
attention shifed to the start o the general electioncampaign. Te Indonesian Democratic Party
Struggle (PDI-P) won the election in Ambon.
Te PDI-P was a reormulation o the Indonesian
Democratic Party (PDI) that used five political
parties, including the Indonesian Christian Party
(PARKINDO). Historically, PARKINDO was sup-
ported by the Ambonese Christian community
and hence PDI-P was perceived as the Christian
party in Maluku. Violence re-erupted in Ambon
21 Interview by Akiko Horiba with the Director o LAPPAN (Institute o
Woman and Children Empowerment), Ambon City, 17 November 2009.
in July 1999 when PDI-Ps election victory was
announced. Maluku was on the brink o a civil
war. People mobilised to deend their religion and
orchestrated violence against anyone o a different
religion. Many villages took part in the fighting. Tesecurity orces were also divided along religious lines
and were thereore unable to perorm their tasks
competently. Te peak o the conflict was the attack
on Silo Church and obelo massacre on 26 Decem-
ber, 1999.22 Te Silo church in the centre o Ambon
city was one o the biggest Maluku Protestant
Churches (Gereja Protestan Maluku, or GPM) and
was burnt to the ground the day afer Christmas.
Te same day, almost 800 Muslims in the mosque
at obelo village in North Maluku province were
22 International Crisis Group (2000).
Box 1: The chronology of the conflict in Maluku
1999 January Small scale street fights escalate into riots in Ambon city and its surroundings.
March Mass violence spreads to other islands in Maluku.
May The general election campaign begins and violence declines.
June General election.
July Mass violence restarts in Ambon city.
October North Maluku Province separated from Maluku Province.
December Conflict escalates after Silo church is burned and a massacre takes place in the Muslim village
of Tobelo in North Maluku.
2000 May Laskar Jihad arrives in Ambon.
June Massacre in Galela near Tobelo in North Maluku.
Police weapons stolen and distributed to civilians.
Civil emergency declared in Maluku and North Maluku and thousands of troops deployed.
December Maluku Front Sovereignty (FKM) declares independence of the Republic of South Maluku (RMS).
2001 January The armys joint battalion (Yongab) conducts a sweeping operation targeting strongholds of
Muslim groups.
June Yongab conducts another sweeping operation.
2002 February Malino Peace Agreement (Malino II) was signed.
April The Malukan provincial government office was burned.
Soya village is attacked, after which violence began to decline in Maluku.
May The leader of Laskar Jihad, Jafar Umar Talib, and the FKM, Alex Manuputti, both arrested.
October Laskar Jihad is dissolved in Maluku.
2003 May Civil emergency lifted from North Maluku province.
September Civil emergency lifted from Maluku Province.
2004 April FKM raised the RMS flag, prompting riots in Ambon city which left 40 dead.
June General election.
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killed by Christians. Tose attacks were in turn
used to call on Christians and Muslims to engage
in urther violent conflict, which the military could
do little to contain.
During this period, many villages were attacked,churches and mosques destroyed, and civilians killed
and displaced. Te inability o the Indonesian cen-
tral government and military to control the conflict
gave groups outside Maluku the opportunity to
exploit the situation. On 7 January 2000, afer the
massacre in obelo, more than 100,000 Muslims held
a protest in Jakarta at LapanganMonas (National
Monument Stadium), calling or ajihadin Maluku.
Te protest was organised by Muslim political par-
ties and Muslim organisations. One o the Muslim
organisations, called Forum Komunikasi AhluSunnah wal-Jamaah (FKAWJ) led by Jaar Umar
Talib, held a large meeting at Senayan Stadium on
6 April 2000 and created Laskar Jihad, a Muslim
militia group.23 In May 2000, this Java-based Muslim
militia announced they were launching ajihadin
Maluku and began sending its members to the
province. Tey stole more than 800 weapons roma police weapons store in June 2000 and subsequently
committed requent attacks on police officers. Both
Laskar Jihad and the military supplied weapons to
Muslim civilians, which allowed the conflict to
escalate. Te dynamics o the conflict changed sig-
nificantly, with more Christian than Muslim villages
attacked. A state o civil emergency was declared
on 27 June 2000 and a large military contingent
23 For more inormation on Laskar Jihad, see Noorhaidi, Hasan, Faith
and Politics: Te Rise o the Laskar Jihad in the Era o ransition in
Indonesia, Indonesia, Vol. 73, April, (2002), pp.145-170.
An Indonesian soldier stands guard above a village destroyed by fighting between Muslims and Christians in Ambon, January 14, 2000.
AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim
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deployed in Maluku at the time there were 17 army
battalions and two battalions o paramilitary police
though neither the army nor the police were suc-
cessul in controlling the situation.24
Te Governments inability to contain the con-
flict allowed or the emergence o Maluku Front
Sovereignty (FKM) in 2000, a movement which drewupon the legacy o the Republic o South Maluku
(RMS). RMS was ormed in 1950and advocated
separatism rom a predominantly Muslim state.25
Te RMS was thus perceived as a Christian move-
ment exacerbating the inter-religious dynamics o
the conflict.
A number o actors contributed to the decline
in violence by the end o 2001. Prolonged attacks had
segregated communities, making it more logisti-
cally difficult or Muslims and Christians to attack
each other. A special joint battalion, Yongab, madeup o special orces rom the army, navy and air
orce, conducted operations primarily against Laskar
Jihad, including against their base. Finally, Malukans
ofen say they simply grew tired o the fighting.
Te central government initiated peace talks
between the Christian and Muslim communities
which, in February 2002, culminated in the Malino II
peace agreement. Sporadic violence and bombing
continued (including attacks on the regional parlia-
ment and the governors office) but decreased in
requency and intensity so much that the state o
civil emergency was lifed in Maluku in 2003.
Another important turning point was the attack in
April 2002 on the village o Soya, in which 11 people
died and 22 houses were bombed.26 Residents o
Soya were Christians and had presumed that they
were sae rom attack because o their distance rom
Muslim communities. An investigation revealed
that Kopassus (NI special orces) and a Christian
24 All figures in this paragraph on the number o security personnel
are sourced rom: Yanuarti, Sri., Nusa Bhakti, Ikrar and Nurhasim,
Mochamad,Military Politics, Ethnicity and Conflict in Indonesia ,
Centre or Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity,
Working Paper No. 62 (2009).
25 Te FKM was ormed on 15 July 2000 by Alex Manuputti in Kudamati,
Ambon. It was initially ormed to boost the morale o the locals at the
height o the conflict when the role o the state was weak. However, it
did not receive much local support, with only several hundred active
members among the provinces population. Tis prompted Alex
Manuputti to use the old political flag o RMS to ront the FKM. Te
Republic o the South Moluccas (RMS) was promoted by the Dutch
to undermine opposition to its colonial rule immediately afer World
War II. It was a predominantly Christian organisation and advocated
or Maluku to be sepa rated rom the Republic o Indonesia.
26 Sinar Harapan, Belasan Preman Pelaku Pengeboman di Ambon,
22 October, (2002).
gang committed the attack, not Muslims as had
been previously assumed.27 According to many
observers, Kopassus tried to extend the conflict by
hiring a Christian gang to conduct the attack.
Indeed, Berty Loupatty, one o the leaders o the
Christianpreman, conessed that the Soya attack
was in act a Kopassus order.28
Tis gave Christiansand Muslims a common cause in their resentment
o the army. A shared sense o victimhood decreased
the level o communal conflict.
Later incidents did not spark mass violence in
the same way as they had in the past. In April 2004,
more than 40 people died in rioting ollowing the
raising o the RMS flag at the home o the FKM
leader.29 Rioting erupted again in Ambon city but
subsided within one week. Following this riot,
minor bombings occurred but did not provoke a
violent reaction rom the local community.
Conflict management actors
and initiatives
Various efforts were undertaken to end the conflict,
including those led by security orces; central and
local government; international and local NGOs;
and local community and womens groups. wo
broad approaches to conflict management in Maluku
emerge rom these efforts: the security and emer-gency approach; and the recovery and development
approach. Conflict management beore the Malino
Peace Agreement in February 2002 (Malino II) was
mostly reactive. Tere was no strategic or long-
term planning by either the Government nor civil
society. Te main conflict management tools used
were the delivery o aid and security, relying heavily
on the military which had been mobilised rom
outside Maluku. Malino II was a significant turn-
ing point which marked a shif to the recovery and
development approach. Afer the Malino II peace
process, the central and local government turned
to legal instruments arresting and prosecuting
those holding weapons and committing attacks
and ocused on long-term development and
27 Muhammad, Najib, Security sector reorm, democratic transition,
and social violence: Te case o Ambon, Indonesia , Bergho Research
Center or Constructive Conflict Management, (Berlin: Bergho
Research Center or Constructive C onflict Management, 2004).
28 Muhammad, Najib (2004), p.8.
29 International Crisis Group,Indonesia: Violence Erupts Again in Ambon,
Asia Report No.32, (Jakarta/Brussels: ICG, 2004).
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recovery planning. Civil society also shifed their
approach rom the provision o emergency assist-
ance to development and recovery.
The emergency and security
approach to conflict management
Government initiatives Pre-Malino II
Beore the Government initiated the Malino peace
talks, there were several unsuccessul attempts at
conflict resolution by the local government. For
example, the Maluku Governor set up an inormal
team o religious leaders, eam 6, at the end o
January 1999. Te team was composed o six leaders
rom the Muslim, Catholic, and Protestant commu-
nities. Teir mandate was to prevent the destruc-
tion o churches, mosques and homes, and to stop
widespread violence in Ambon city. However, the
leaders selected by the Governor were not seriously
committed to peace indeed, some suspect that they
were even complicit in the violence. In addition,
given the decentralised decision-making structure
within the Muslim community, it was difficult to
select representatives with genuine authority across
Maluku. Unsurprisingly, eam 6 had no effect on
conflict resolution or management.
Aid distribution was also problematic. Te localgovernment had stocks o ood supplies and other
basic necessities but could not distribute it without
military support. However, the reliance on the mil-
itary to distribute the aid ofen led to its disappear-
ance. Tere were claims that the military itsel had
no proper logistical support. Te breakdown o the
structure o government during the conflict meant
there was no leadership to provide directives on
where and how the distribution o emergency aid
should be carried out. Te segregation o Muslim
and Christian communities posed a urther chal-lenge to the distribution o the aid.
Te Government attempted to respond militar-
ily to the growing violence. During the early stages
o the conflict, between January and March 1999,
the Government deployed 5,300 security personnel,
both rom the mobile brigade (Brimob) o the police
and rom the military, to Maluku. On May 15,1999
the Maluku District Military Command (Korem
Maluku) was upgraded to a Regional Military
Command (Kodam) under the leadership o a brig-adier general, a move which gave the military both
greater status and a greater budget in Maluku. In
November 1999 the number o security personnel
was increased to 6,000, including officers rom the
new Regional Military Command (Kodam). In
January 2000, the military and Brimob orces were
increased to five battalions (11,250 personnel).30
However, this increased orce did not lead to a decline
in violence, not least because o the militarys inex-perience with communal conflict. Te military was
not trained or conflicts in which the concept o
the enemy was ambiguous and did not know what
actions to take when the two religious communities
were engaged in fighting.
In June 2000, rising violence, driven by the infil-
tration o Laskar Jihad, led to a civil emergency
being declared in Maluku and even more police
and military troops being deployed to the province.
However, poor civil-military co-ordination proved
to be a significant barrier to reducing the level oviolence. According to the law that governs emer-
gency rule (Law 23/1959), it is the responsibility o
governors to restore order in an emergency situation
and they have the authority to use the resources at
their disposal. However, neither the Governor nor
the district head in Maluku was able to command
the security orces, who worked only under the
direction o their central command. While there
was some degree o co-ordination between the secu-
rity orces and local government, it was not suffi-cient or both to respond effectively and promptly
to emergency situations. Te civil emergency in
north Maluku province lasted until May 2003 and
the civil emergency lasted until September 2003 in
Maluku province.
Security forces: in-fighting between
the military and police
Tere were significant co-ordination problems
within the security orces, particularly between the
military and the police.31 Te ineffectiveness o the
police and military stems in part rom the struc-
tural changes that these agencies underwent dur-
ing the transition to democracy. Te reorms that
ollowed Soeharto stepping down gave the police
the responsibility or internal security and greater
30 All figures in this paragraph on the number o security personnel
are sourced rom: Yanuarti, Sri et al (2009).
31 Muhammad, Nazib, Violence in Between, In Kingsbury, Damien
(Ed.), Conflict and Security in Archipelagic Southeast Asia, Monash
Asia Institute (Melbourne: Monash Asia Institute, 2005).
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resources than they had previously, but the military
continued to assert its primacy, seeking to retain
both its authority and budget. So, while the divi-
sion o labour and relations between the military
and police was defined on paper, in reality it was
more fluid. Indeed, there was even active fighting
between the NI (military) and Polri (police). InJuly 2000, an exchange o weapons fire took place
between personnel rom Battalion 509 (Kodam
Diponegoro and Kodam Brawijaya) and personnel
rom Brimob in which at least one police officer died.32
Te perceived partiality o the security orces inevents such as the attack on Soya village bred dis-
trust amongst locals and though such involvement
has been officially denied by both the military and
the police, the results o various investigations sug-
gest otherwise.33 Te police stationed in Maluku
were mainly locally recruited and, unsurprisingly,
demonstrated affiliations with their respective ellow
Muslims and Christians. As or the military units,
although they were deliberately mixed and regularly
rotated rom one area to the other, soldiers became
acquainted with the villagers they deended andwere ofen given ood, drinks and cigarettes by
those villagers. It was not unusual, when clashes
took place, or the soldiers to side with the people
they had been meeting on a daily basis with the
result that Muslim soldiers sometimes deended
Muslim villages against Christian attacks and
Christian soldiers deended their riends against
Muslim attacks.34 In the second phase o the Maluku
conflict, some military personnel were even sup-
plying weapons and ammunition to the warring
parties.35 Soldiers were said to have paid or their
ood with bullets and, according to an Ambonese
member o the Peoples Representative Council (DPR):
Te ammunition and guns are sold by soldiers who
need money to live.36
32 Yanuarti , Sri et al (2009), p.26.
33 APOL, KOPASSUS and the Maluku Crisis, Online bulletin, January-
February (2003).
34 International Crisis Group, Indonesia: Te search or peace in Maluku,
Asia Report No. 31, (Jak arta/Brussels: ICG 2002).
35 Yanuarti , Sri et al (2009), p.25.
36 Internat ional Crisis Group (2002), p.5.
Extortion by the security orces also tarnished
their reputation in Maluku. At the peak o the con-
flict, neither religious leaders nor government rep-
resentatives could pass through areas dominated
by one religious group without protection rom the
security orces. As the Secretary o Ambon City
put it: I I wanted to make a visit, I needed to asksecurity orces to accompany me. Without their pro-
tection, I could not have gone anywhere during the
conflict37. Security personnel exploited the situa-
tion, demanding protection money in return or
sae passage. One resident complained that to travel
back and orth rom Ambon city to visit his amily
security orces sometimes asked me to pay a very
expensive price. I paid because there was no other
option. . . the security orces benefited rom the
conflict.38
The non-governmental sector
As the local government was unable to operate during
the emergency period, international and local NGOs
attempted to fill the vacuum. NGOs were critical
providers o humanitarian aid, predominantly
sanitation, medical care and basic necessities par-
ticularly to the IDPs. As donors and international
NGOs had difficulty accessing conflict-affected
areas, local NGOs played an important role in the
distribution o the aid. Following the riot in January1999, local NGOs in Ambon created a consortium
called the Maluku Social Humanitarian Voluntary
eam (im Relawan Kemanusiaan Social Maluku,
IRUS), which operated out o a Catholic NGOs office.
Prior to the conflict, there were approximately
ten NGOs in Ambon and they ofen transcended
religious differences. However, the conflict produced
religiously segregated local NGOs,each providing
aid to their respective communities. Aid was pro-
vided less according to a systematic assessment o
needs and more to areas where particular NGOs
could gain access.
In the period beore the Malino agreement was
signed, international NGOs and UN agencies par-
ticularly ocused on humanitarian aid rather than
any peacebuilding activities.39 As well as providing
assistance to communities directly, they unded
37 Interview by Akiko Horiba with a ormer secretary o Ambon City,
16 July 2009.
38 Interview by Akiko Horiba with residents o Kebon Cengkeh, Ambon
City, 1 September 2009.
39 Brown, Graham et al (2005).
While the division of labour and relations
between the military and police was defined
on paper, in reality it was more fluid.
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local NGOs and ran capacity-building programmes
to improve local governance. Efforts were made to try
and provide an incentive or religious co-operation.
For example, the UNDPs Community Recovery
Program provided unds to local NGOs on the condi-
tion that Christian and Muslim NGOs collaborate.40
However, local government officials claimed that
international organisations did not co-ordinate
their activities with them, which led to overlapping
assistance in IDP camps.41
Efforts from the local community to
resolve the conflict
Beore the arrival o emergency aid in Ambon
rom the central government and international
40 Interview by Akiko Horiba with ormer staff o Lakspesdam NU
(Nahdlatul Ulama), Ambon City, 20 July 2009.
41 Interview by Akiko Horiba with ormer staff o Bapedda (Badan
Perencanaan Penbangunan Daerah) Province Maluku, Ambon City,
21 July 2009.
agencies, local communities relied heavily on their
religious institutions or assistance. As the residents
o Warigin in Ambon city put it: We assisted and
supported one another by sharing ood supplies and
other basic necessities, and accepting IDPs into our
houses. No one helped us or a long time. We survived
by ourselves until emergency aid came.42 Among
Christian communities, the churches unctioned
as distribution centres or emergency aid.43 Help
within Muslim communities was less institution-alised, with mosques unctioning as little more than
a shelter or Muslims.
At this stage o the conflict, peace was consid-
ered a taboo word within most communities. Tose
who talked o peace were ofen treated as enemies,
limiting their ability to start peace processes.
Nevertheless, there were several examples o success-
42 Focus group discussion with inhabitants o Warigin in Ambon City,
20 November 2009.
43 Interview by Akiko Horiba with a pastor at Silo church in Ambon
City, 16 July 2009.
Ambonese demand the UN intervene in renewed fighting between Christians and Muslims in Jakarta, May 22, 2000.
REUTERS/Darren Whiteside
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ul conflict prevention at the grassroots level. A
strong example is the case o eam 20 in Wayame
village, which maintained peaceul co-existence
between both its Christians and Muslims villagers.44
eam 20, which was composed o ten Christians
and ten Muslims, was responsible or veriying any
inormation aimed at provoking fighting betweenthe two religious communities. Tey also enorced
rules in the village prohibiting villagers rom taking
part in the fighting, misusing religious symbols, con-
suming alcohol and making derogatory remarks
about religion. Both the pastors and Muslim religious
leaders played a critical role in promoting religious
tolerance, constantly telling the local community
that it was not a conflict o religion. eam 20 also
created a market that was accessible to both reli-
gious communities. Tis not only demonstrated
the harmonious relations between the Christiansand Muslims but was also important or the eco-
nomic survival o the village during the conflict.
Te Baku Bae Peace Movement was another
notable conflict management initiative that helped
to orge a common identity between both groups, as
victims o violence. Baku Baeis a phrase indigenous
to Maluku which is commonly used by children to
restore riendship afer a misunderstanding or
quarrel. In the context o Malukus conflict, Baku
Baemeans ceasing the violence.45
It was a moreaccepted term than peace at the height o the
conflict. Te movement was developed and built by
a number o civil society actors in Ambon includ-
ing scholars, NGO activists, lawyers, journalists,
religious representatives, and village and traditional
leaders (raja). It was acilitated by peace activists rom
Jakarta. Human rights NGOs rom Jakarta, such as
the Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation (Yayasan
Lembaga Bantuan Hukum Indonesia, YLBHI),
Jakarta Legal Aid Institute (LBH Jakarta) and the
Commission or Missing Persons and Victims oViolence (Kontras), that supported the Baku Bae
movement conducted research in Ambon and con-
cluded the conflict was less about inherent religious
44 Comments on the workshop by ormer pastor in Wayame village,
one o the leaders o eam 20, Ambon City, 14 October 2009. Also
see, Horiba, Aki ko, Community Mechanism in Wayame on Ambon
Conflict, In, Peoples Survival Strategy: Success Stories in Conflict
(Poso, angkura village and Ambon, Wayame Village), Research
Report, (Jakarta: Institut itian Perdamaian, 2008).
45 Ichsan, Malik, Bakubae: the community based movement or recon-
ciliation process in Maluku, Bakubae Maluku, ia Foundation and
Yayasan Kemala, (Jakarta: Bakubae Maluku, ia a nd Kemala, 2003).
differences and more about the militarys negative
role in exploiting religious sentiment. Tese NGOs
then held a series o workshops in Jakarta in 2001
or Maluku religious leaders, village heads, adat
leaders, NGO activists, lawyers and journalists that
addressed the causes o the conflict and explored ways
to orge a common agenda. Tese workshops, andthe research undertaken by the human rights NGOs
rom Jakarta, helped engender a shif rom looking
at each other as enemises and fighting each other to
all being victims and blaming the government.46
One o the achievements o the workshops was
to establish the Maluku Media Centre (MMC)
which housed Christian and Muslim journalists
who had been trained in Baku Bae workshops. Upon
their return to Ambon, they spread the idea o
peace journalism and encouraged other journalists
to avoid writing or reporting provocative news.47
Role of the media
In conflict situations, the media can be used as a
peacebuilding tool as well as an instigator o vio-
lence. During the conflict in Ambon city, the media
(newspapers, radio and the internet) played a part
in promoting the violence. In addition, the media
were divided along religious lines and were used to
disseminate rumours and alse inormation. For
example, the conflict led to the division o a local
newspaper, Suara Maluku, into Suara Maluku (or
a Christian audience) and theAmbon Express (or
Muslims). Provocative inormation that was not
verified was ofen published in both papers. Te
radio and the internet had also triggered violence
during the Ambon conflict. Laskar Jihad had its
own radio station Suara Perjuangan Muslim
Maluku (Maluku Muslim Voice o Struggle) and
website (www.laskarjihad.or.id), which allegedly
became a tool or mobilising Muslims to carry outviolent attacks and spreading the groups propa-
ganda about the conflict. Christians and Muslims
also criticised each others cruel killings and arson
attacks on the internet.48
46 Interview by Akiko Horiba with a ormer vice director o YLBHI
(Yayasan Lembaga Bantuan Hukum Indonesia /Te Legal Aid
Foundation Indonesia), Jakarta, 22 August 2009.
47 Interview by Akiko Horiba with a journalist romelevisi Republik
Indonesia /V Indonesia, Ambon City, 1 September 2009.
48 See: Brauchler, Birgit, Cyberidentities at War: Religion, Identity, and
the Internet in the Moluccas Conflict, Indonesia, No. 75 (New York:
Columbia University, 2003), pp.123-151.
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Tere are some examples o the media being
used as a peacebuilding tool during the conflict.
Te Baku Bae peace movement held workshops to
raise awareness o the importance o ending the vio-
lence in Maluku as well as workshops or journalists
on peace journalism training and subsequently
created the MMC. It was comprised o both Muslimand Christian journalists and became a way or
them to exchange and veriy inormation with
their counterparts rom across the religious divide,
which had previously been impossible. Tis resulted
in more objective reporting o the conflict.49
Roles of women
Women occupy an influential role in the amily.
As wives, women can persuade their husbands
not to engage in the conflict and as mothers,women can educate their children not to be
prejudiced against other religions.50
Women played active roles in peacemaking efforts
in Ambon. Inter-religious meetings among women
IDPs not only ensured the distribution o emergency
aid to IDPs, but also became an avenue or recon-
ciliation between the Muslim and Christian women.
Womens leadership in organizing inter-religious
meetings among displaced women was a notable
achievement in Maluku. Te shared identity omotherhood was an entry point or inter-religious
discussions. Expressing shared concerns about
their childrens saety and uture, ood, education,
medical care and other basic necessities, helped
bind women rom the two religious communities
together: Women create a culture o peace. Women
can ease the tension through singing and dancing.
Women have a big role to play in conflict manage-
ment, concluded one activist.51
Women, however, were most active at the grass-roots level. One strong example is the Caring Womens
Movement (Gerakan Perempuan Peduli, GPP) ormed
in September 1999 by more than 40 Muslim, Protes-
tant and Catholic women activists. Tey organised
rallies against violence in Maluku even when the
conflict was at its peak. Tey also had meetings
49 For more inormation on the MMC, reer to www.malukumedia
centre.org/
50 Interview by Akiko Horiba with a Christian representative to the
Malino Peace Agreement, Ambon, 31 August 2009.
51 Interview by Akiko Horiba with a Christian representative to the
Malino Peace Agreement, Ambon, 31 August 2009.
with government and security officials, religious
leaders and youths , as well as training women vol-
unteers in the field on mediation and counselling.
GPP also co-operated with other womens organi-
sations in Maluku.
Tere was less participation by women in ormal
high-level peacemaking in Maluku. For Malino II,a emale pastor and two Catholic women were cho-
sen as representatives o the Christian community,
while there were no Muslim women representatives.
Te difference is partly because, while women
pastors or Catholic nuns played a significant role
as leaders o the Christian community, the role o
women in the Muslim community was less visible.
Although some women in Ambon were involved
in bomb-making and instigating violence, sponta-
neous womens initiatives mostly brought about many
positive results. In Ambon, the reconciliation pro-cess between women rom the two religious commu-
nities began at the market. Women, both Muslims
and Christians, regularly braved the violence to
travel to the market, ofen located in Ambon city,
to purchase ood items or to sell their produce. For
example, women known asjibu-jibu, travelled
rom the Muslim village o Sirisori to the Christian
village o Owu to sell their produce, even during the
conflict.52 Teir efforts were aided by the perception
that women are less threatening, making it easieror them to enter and travel through areas domi-
nated by the other religion. While these efforts
may have been driven more by basic needs than
conscious attempts at conflict resolution, they laid
the oundation or more ormal reconciliation ini-
tiatives. In addition, due to interaction between the
women rom different religious communities, they
became messengers or their larger communities.
Tis put them in a good position to veriy or dispel
rumours and prevent acts o provocation.53
The Malino Peace Agreement
Te central government led the peace process very
short by comparative standards that culminated
in the signing o the Malino II peace agreement on
11 February 2002 in the highlands o Malino in
52 Interview by Akiko Horiba with a womens rights activist rom
Komnas HAM (National Human Rights Commission) in Ambon,
17 November 2009.
53 For more inormation on the role o women in the Maluku peace
process, see C entre or Humanitarian Dia logue, (2010).
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Box 2: The Malino II Agreeement
The Malino II Agreement comprised of 11 points:
1. End all conflicts and disputes;
2. Abide by due process of law enforcement. Existing
security officers are obliged to be professional in
exercising their mission;
3. Reject and oppose all kinds of separatist movements,
among others the Republic of South Moluccas (RMS);
4. The people of the Moluccas have the right to stay
and work legally and fairly in Indonesia nationwide
and vice versa;
5. Ban and disarm illegal armed organizations, groups,
or militias, in accordance with the existing law. Outside
parties that disturb the peace will be expelled from
the Moluccas;
6. Establish a national independent investigation team
to investigate among others, the tragic incident on
January 19, 1999, the Moluccas Sovereign Front,
Republic of South Moluccas, Christian Republic of
South Moluccas, jihad warrior (laskar jihad), Christ
Warrior, coercive conversion, and human rights
violations;
7. Call for the voluntary return of refugees to their homes,
and the return of properties;
8. Rehabilitate mental, social, economic and public
infrastructures, particularly educational, health,
religious, and housing facilities;
9. To preserve law and order for the people in the area,
it is absolutely necessary for the military and the
police to maintain coordination and firmness in
executing their function and mission. In line with this,
a number of military and police facilities must be
rebuilt and re-equipped;
10. Uphold good relationships and the harmony among
all elements of believers in the Moluccas, all efforts of
evangelism must highly honour the diversity and
acknowledge local culture;
11. Support the rehabilitation of Pattimura University for
common progress, as such, the recruitment system
and other po